Richard T. De George

Richard T. De George is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, of Russian and East European Studies, and of Business Administration, and Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and he has been a research fellow at Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and the Hoover Institution. He was the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at Santa Clara University in 1986, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1985.

He has written widely in the fields of political and social philosophy, ethics, and applied ethics, with an emphasis on business ethics and most recently computer ethics. He is the author of over 160 articles and the author or editor of eighteen books, including Academic Freedom and Tenure: Ethical Issues (1997); Business Ethics (1999), now in its fifth edition and also available in Chinese, Japanese and Russian; and Competing With Integrity in International Business (Oxford, 1993). He has been the President of several academic organizations, including the American Philosophical Association, the Metaphysical Society of America, and the Society for Business Ethics, and he is currently President of the International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics. He has given invited lectures on six continents at a great many universities and keynote addresses to a variety of organizations both here and abroad, including such places as Tokyo, Como, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, and Perth. He has been a consultant for Motorola, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power and Light, Koch Industries, and General Motors, among others, and is a specialist in international business ethical issues and codes.

In November, 1996, he received an honorary doctorate from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands together with Bill Gates and Nelson Mandela.